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Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up
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Throwing the Elephant: Zen and the Art of Managing Up

by Stanley Bing

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Paperback · 240 pages HarperCollins · 2003

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Throwing the Elephant

Stanley Bing follows his enormously successful What Would Machiavelli Do? with another subversively humorous exploration of how work would be different—if the Buddha were your personal consultant.

What would the Buddha do—if he had to deal with a rampaging elephant of a boss every day? That is the premise of Stanley Bing’s wickedly funny guide to finding inner peace in the face of relentlessly obnoxious, huge, and sometimes smelly bosses. Taking the concept of managing up to a new cosmic plateau, Bing urges no less than a revolution of the spirit in the American workplace, turning overwrought, oppressed, stressed-out employees into models of Zen-like powers of concentration, able to take their elephant-like bosses and grey, lumbering companies and twirl them around the little finger of their consciousness.

In Bing’s unique tradition of social criticism cum business self-help, Throwing the Elephant presents Four Truths (or possibly Five), a Ninefold Path, and one useful, hilarious guide to workplace sanity, success, and enlightenment that surpasses all understanding, survival.



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Publisher
HarperCollins
Author
Stanley Bing
Format
Paperback
Published
Jun 3, 2003
ISBN-13
9780060934224
ISBN-10
0060934220
Pages
240
Carton quantity
60 copies
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